One of my friends commented on my blog that at one point his wife told your company that he had died just to get you to stop calling him.

Get the message?

Jonathan Kamens

As for Current Coworker Name, he is currently employed where I work, and he has not chosen to mention to me that he is looking for a new position, so whether he is or isn’t, dropping his name to me was entirely inappropriate. The fact that you felt comfortable doing that is yet another reason why people should avoid your company like the plague.

6 thoughts on “High Tech Ventures strikes again”

The previous comment from “paul” was posted from the IP address 72.248.205.178, which resolves to smtp.htventures.com. Four minutes earlier, another comment was posted on my other article about High Tech Ventures, from the same IP address, this time from “john”.

Apparently “john” / “paul” is unaware that blogs log IP addresses.

I leave it to the readers of my blog to evaluate the trustworthiness of a company’s defense being posted by an employee of the company who neglects to identify himself as such.

I’ve been getting recruiter emails from someone at htventures for the past few weeks. As a rule I don’t bother with 3rd party recruiters because they’re the worst matchmakers ever, but this guy was extra persistent so I looked them up and found this. Thanks for posting it.

I filed a Better Business Bureau complaint against High Tech Ventures yesterday about both this incident and the fact that I’ve been trying without success for the past 13 years to get them to stop contacting me. The BBB isn’t anything to write home about, but something is better than nothing. I also hope to talk to another recruiter whom I trust today to find out whether there is any sort of recruiting industry organization which accepts and tracks complaints about recruiters.

The co-worker, (not me) is definitely not looking for a job and is actually totally [expletive deleted – this is a family blog – ed.] that HTV is calling people in the company and pretending to represent him. It was almost enough to get him in trouble with his manager until he explained himself.

This is completely unacceptable behavior, and they have now been blacklisted from my list of recruiters I’ll use.